From: Rhonda Schneider

Shakespearean Insult Kit

To construct a Shakespearean insult, combine one word from each of the three columns below, and preface it with "Thou":


   Column 1            Column 2            Column 3 

   artless             base-court          apple-john 
   bawdy               bat-fowling         baggage 
   beslubbering        beef-witted         barnacle 
   bootless            beetle-headed       bladder 
   churlish            boil-brained        boar-pig 
   cockered            clapper-clawed      bugbear 
   clouted             clay-brained        bum-bailey 
   craven              common-kissing      canker-blossom 
   currish             crook-pated         clack-dish 
   dankish             dismal-dreaming     clotpole 
   dissembling         dizzy-eyed          coxcomb 
   droning             doghearted          codpiece 
   errant              dread-bolted        death-token 
   fawning             earth-vexing        dewberry 
   fobbing             elf-skinned         flap-dragon 
   froward             fat-kidneyed        flax-wench 
   frothy              fen-sucked          flirt-gill 
   gleeking            flap-mouthed        foot-licker 
   goatish             fly-bitten          fustilarian 
   gorbellied          folly-fallen        giglet 
   impertinent         fool-born           gudgeon 
   infectious          full-gorged         haggard 
   jarring             guts-griping        harpy 
   loggerheaded        half-faced          hedge-pig 
   lumpish             hasty-witted        horn-beast 
   mammering           hedge-born          hugger-mugger 
   mangled             hell-hated          joithead 
   mewling             idle-headed         lewdster 
   paunchy             ill-breeding        lout
   pribbling           ill-nurtured        maggot-pie 
   puking              knotty-pated        malt-worm 
   puny                milk-livered        mammet 
   qualling            motley-minded       measle
   rank                onion-eyed          minnow 
   reeky               plume-plucked       miscreant   
   roguish             pottle-deep         moldwarp         
   ruttish             pox-marked          mumble-news 
   saucy               reeling-ripe        nut-hook 
   spleeny             rough-hewn          pigeon-egg
   spongy              rude-growing        pignut
   surly               rump-fed            puttock 
   tottering           shard-borne         pumpion 
   unmuzzled           sheep-biting        ratsbane 
   vain                spur-galled         scut 
   venomed             swag-bellied        skainsmate 
   villainous          tardy-gaited        strumpet 
   warped              tickle-brained      varlet 
   wayward             toad-spotted        vassal 
   weedy               unchin-snouted      whey-face 
   yeasty              weather-bitten      wagtail

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